Published: September 1, 2010

IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William in one of the country’s biggest tabloids, News of the World....read more

The latest revelations of dirty tricks at the News of the World have brought it all flooding back: Fleet Street as it was, newsrooms clouded in cigarette smoke, pounding typewriters, thundering presses shaking the whole building ­– and Stuart Kuttner.

Kuttner was managing editor of the now mercifully-defunct News of the Screws for more than 20 years, until his abrupt removal in 2009 after a former private detective accepted cash payments from the paper’s royal editor for stories harvested by hacking into Prince Harry and Prince William’s voicemails.

Stuart Kuttner former managing editor of News of the World

At the Screws, Kuttner was the money man, a coldly-calculating master plotter and manipulator of all that was squalid, unfair and dishonourable. Our paths crossed, and clashed, at the now-also-defunct (London) Evening News, shortly before he took his murky talents to the News of the World. At the News Kuttner held a senior executive role and ran the paper’s investigations. It was 1978 and I was knocking out diary stories for the News’s diary editor, Richard Compton-Miller.... read more

Names passed to Steve Coogan by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire will not be disclosed after Scotland Yard intervention

Steve Coogan is one of several celebrities suing the News of the World for breach of privacy. Photograph: David Fisher / Rex Features

The names of several News of the World journalists who ordered a private detective to hack into mobile phones belonging to six public figures will not be publicly disclosed after Scotland Yard intervened to prevent their publication.

The names were passed to Steve Coogan on Friday by Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the paper, in compliance with a high court order the actor obtained earlier this year.

The names are critical to the phone-hacking investigation because they could show how far the practice was widespread at the paper, which was closed down by Rupert Murdoch last month, despite consistent denials from its owner News Group Newspapers. Coogan is one of several celebrities suing the paper for breach of privacy.

The high court order instructed Mulcaire to reveal who at the paper asked him to illegally intercept messages left on mobile belonging to former model Elle Macpherson, publicist Max Clifford and four others.

Mulcaire, who was employed exclusively by the News of the World, was also told to reveal who at the paper ordered him to target Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes, PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor, his colleague Jo Armstrong and football agent Sky Andrew.

He was refused leave to appeal against the order earlier this month and handed over the names on Friday, the deadline set by the high court for making the information available.

Law firm Schillings was contacted by Mulcaire's solicitor Sarah Webb of Payne Hicks Beach on Friday and asked not to make the names public. Webb said: "The issues of confidentiality are of concern to the Metropolitan police and we asked Coogan's solicitors not to disclose the information until the Met could consider the matter."

She added: "The issue is not that my client requires to keep matters confidential but rather that the police require him to. We were concerned that our [client] did not breach orders of the court in this respect. The Met are now dealing [with this] and there is nothing more I can add."

Similar high court orders have contained restrictions on publishing the names of News of the World journalists on the grounds that doing so could compromise Operation Wheeting, Scotland Yard's ongoing investigation into phone hacking, by tipping off potential suspects.

Scotland Yard had not responded to requests for a comment by the time of publication.

There is some confusion over whether the order obtained by Coogan allows the names to be released, however. Sources close to the actor insisted they can be identified. News Group's parent company News International refused to comment.

Mulcaire is also taking legal action against News International after it stopped paying his legal fees in July, claiming the company is contractually obliged to do so.

Meanwhile, Coogan has also won a separate high court order to force Mulcaire to name the News of the World executives who ordered Mulcaire to hack into his own phone.

Mulcaire is appealing against that order on the grounds that he would incriminate himself by complying with it because he would be confessing to a crime he has not been charged with or admitted to.

Crucially, that defence is not available to him as regards Max Clifford, Elle Macpherson and the others, because Mulcaire already pleaded guilty to illegally intercepting messages left on their mobiles in the original 2007 phone-hacking court case, which resulted in his imprisonment.

Mulcaire was jailed in January of that year along with the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman.

Monday, August 29, 2011

For more than five years Rupert Murdoch and his most trusted executives told the world that a rogue reporter and a rogue private detective were responsible for hacking phones for the News of the World. Reporter Sarah Ferguson investigates that claim and reveals the links between Murdoch's newspapers and the British criminal world going back two decades.

What do you do when you're a journalist with an editor demanding an exclusive story to put on the front page? At Britain's now defunct News of the World you employed a foul-mouthed private investigator with a criminal record to get you information that would provide you with a scoop.

Phone hacking was a speciality but there were other methods too, including corrupting police who would provide the kind of private information guaranteed to win the reporter a prime spot in the paper.

This week on Four Corners, Sarah Ferguson tells the story of a key private investigator at the heart of the scandals that have set Rupert Murdoch's empire rocking on its axis. Detailing records of police surveillance and interviews with people who had been targeted by the investigator Ferguson pieces together how he worked.

As the investigation unfolds it becomes clear that phone hacking and illegal information theft were not done on behalf of one "rogue" reporter or one newspaper. Instead, the evidence suggests these surveillance activities were being done on an industrial scale - sometimes by people with criminal backgrounds - for anyone who had the cash to pay for it. As Tony Blair's former press secretary, Alastair Campbell, told Four Corners:

"It seems they were in a sense replacing journalists... possibly to cut costs, but the other reason you assume is because it meant the private detectives could do things the journalists can't."

Campbell has good reason to make such a claim. Four Corners has been told by a News insider that the practice of phone hacking and the gathering of illegal information was so widely accepted that at the News of the World competing sections of the paper used different private investigators to do their dirty work.

Meanwhile, News executives stuck to the company line of one rogue reporter. As one British MP puts it:

"You know what they say about lies: if you say it loud enough and often enough people begin to believe it and they nearly got away with it."

One reason they were able to get away with it for so long was that the British police refused to investigate the extent of the potential criminal activity. Why were they reluctant? According to one person who found himself the victim of illicit surveillance, the answer is clear:

"What happened was that the News of the World or News International more generally managed to get its filthy, slimy tentacles in every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan police and to all intents and purpose that corrupted it."

As the British parliament prepares to reopen its hearings, one question resonates throughout the News empire: how far up the corporate ladder did the knowledge and approval to pay for these services go?

'Bad News', presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 29th August at 8.30pm on ABC1. The program is replayed on Tuesday 30th August at 11.35pm.

Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, are to be questioned about the phone hacking scandal under oath in the High Court.

11:56PM BST 29 Aug 2011Lord Justice Leveson, the man who prosecuted Rose West, will hold his inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice.

David Cameron and other senior politicians are also likely to be questioned over their links to News International, the parent company of the News of the World.

The proceedings will be held in the same court as the official inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Lord Justice Leveson is thought to be keen for the proceedings to be broadcast live to ensure they are seen to be transparent.

The prospect of courtroom evidence will increase the impression that the Leveson inquiry is an unofficial “trial” of key players in the phone hacking scandal.

Over the summer, a handful of officials from the Cabinet Office and Treasury Solicitor’s Office have been planning how the inquiry will be run... continue reading

The Conservatives have had to face fresh allegations about their former Director of Communications Andy Coulson after revelations that he was still receiving payments from News International while working for David Cameron.

Until now, Cameron and his party have consistently maintained that Coulson’s only income was the salary paid to him by the Conservatives (reportedly £275,000). This was corroborated by Coulson himself. However, according to Robert Peston at the BBC, Coulson continued to receive his News International work beneﬁts three years after he had resigned as editor of News of the World, including healthcare, a company car, and thousands of pounds in severance pay..... read morehttp://www.politicalreboot.co.uk/

On Thursday, August 25, a Mercury article headlined "ATO chases ex-Premier's son" wrongly claimed the Australian Tax Office was seeking $735 million from Ben Gray as Managing Director of TPG Capital Australia.

The Mercury accepts that this is not true and apologises unreservedly to Mr Gray.

The Federal Court orders merely allow the ATO to serve Demand Notices on two offshore companies by leaving them with Mr Gray.

The ATO demands do not relate to Mr Gray personally and Mr Gray has confirmed that he is not a director of the offshore companies to which the notice is directed, as claimed in The Mercury.

Mr Gray says that he has answered all questions asked by the ATO in relation to the Myer IPO. Additionaly, TPG says it "strongly believes that it has met all of its Australian tax obligations in connection with the investment in Myer Department Stores and its other investment activities in Australia and at all times has complied with Australian taxation laws as will continue to do so in the future."

Well, we know it was not the News of the World ,Clarence Mitchell has informed us ODDLY enough the McCanns have NOT been hacked even though they had Vodafone....and can someone explain why Madeleine McCann comes under the heading of National Security...?

I have an intense mistrust of Leicester police for the simple reason they held back an alleged paedophile incident (witness statement) from the Portuguese investigation between Gerry McCann and Dr.David Payne for several months.....NOW, one may ask why would a British police force hold back such vital information when a three year old has been reported missing WITHOUT a shred of evidence of an abduction ?

A few days ago I received an interesting letter from Leicestershire police about the Madeleine McCann investigation.

I had asked them, in July, if they had got any warrants (under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) to use surveillance powers - such as phone tapping and email interception on behalf of the Portuguese police.

The force initially stalled saying it needed to "consult other Agencies" before replying.

After a six month delay, Leicestershire has now claimed it is exempt from Freedom of Information laws in this case due to "national security".

I've put in dozens of FoI requests to police forces over the years, some you get and some you don't but "national security" is a new one on me.

To make matters even murkier, Leicestershire claimed a second exemption because the information I requested could relate to "the Security bodies".

A quick look at the FoI Act reveals "Security bodies" are MI5, MI6, GCHQ (pictured above), special forces (such as the SAS) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Check out (slowly I suggest) the tortuous conclusion to the three page letter explaining their stance.

"It is our decision that the Leicestershire Constabulary must maintain a position of neither confirming nor denying that any relevant information is held and that this response, which neither confirms nor denies that information is held, should not be taken as conclusive evidence that the information you have requested exists or does not exist".

Thanks, but I think that is a rather long-winded way of saying Foxtrot Oscar.

However, it does beg the question just who was bugging the McCanns after they returned from Praia da Luz?

Sunday, August 28, 2011

On Friday, 2nd February 2007, I read that media baron Rupert Murdoch has given each of his six children $100 million in News Corp. stock, a company spokesman in New York said Friday. I read further in The Financial Times that Murdoch’s move comes as News Corp. completes a stock swap with John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp., raising the Murdoch family’s voting share in News Corp. to 38 percent from 30 percent.

In regulatory filings Friday, the Murdoch Family Trust said it distributed slightly more than 26 million News Corp. class A shares, which do not have voting rights, worth just over $600 million at Friday’s share price.

“The distribution from the Murdoch Family Trust was made equally to each of Mr. Murdoch’s six children,” the News Corp. spokesman said.

I read that Murdoch, 75, controls News Corp. through the trust.

On Monday, 26 March 2007, I read the announcement that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and NBC Universal would launch an online library of big media video assets that could be licensed by any online distributor, provided they accept the terms and conditions set forth by big media. Towards such ends, the new big media joint venture also announced that Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and MySpace had signed up as licensees and distributors.

Given the significant difference between a web of text vs. that of video for Google, the big media companies made a very smart move last week.

Although not necessarily a checkmate, it was a “check” on Google. If all the other media companies fall in line as well, then it could become a “checkmate” against Google when it comes to big media content.

In other words, Google would have no choice but to accept the demands of the big media companies for the licensing and distribution of their content. The only way for Google to regain leverage against the big media companies, at that point, would be to change the game altogether (e.g. by owning content and becoming a full-fledged media company, as I had suggested they might in my last post).

But at the end of day, it may turn out that both sides of this titanic struggle were merely pawns in a higher-level game benefiting one single player… Rupert Murdoch.

Using Google as the red herring, Murdoch may actually have succeeded in rallying all of his competitors to join forces by contributing their combined digital video assets into one pool (which he has significant control over). But through his ownership of MySpace, Murdoch is in a very unique position relative to all his big media brethren.

Namely, he will be the only one that ends up owning both content (via the new joint venture) and distribution (via MySpace) in any material and meaningful way.

Owning the whole value chain has always been a strategy that has served him well, and by the looks of it, he’s going to continue enjoying such advantages. Not only that, Murdoch could very well have out-maneuvered Google by positioning MySpace to ultimately become what YouTube was supposed to be.

On Thursday, 8 February 2007, I read that Rupert Murdoch announced the launch of Fox Business Channel in the United States this fall by his News Corp. media conglomerate.

The new channel, developed by Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes, will be “business friendly,” Murdoch told a New York media and technology conference. He characterized NBC Universal’s CNBC financial cable network as “negative” toward business.

Murdoch would not disclose programming details because, he said, CNBC “would immediately copy” them. But he said his channel would not “leap on every scandal.”

Ailes said the new channel would “extend the Fox News brand” to business journalism.

The network, based at News Corp.’s New York headquarters, has 30 million subscribers under contract through Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Charter Communications, Fox officials said.

Murdoch has said he would only launch the channel, talked about for the past two years, if he had enough distribution in place.

“I look forward to introducing new competition and a new voice to the business-news arena,” Murdoch said.

On Friday, 9 February 2007, I read that British lawmakers are trying to prevent media baron Rupert Murdoch’s British satellite TV company from controlling the country’s commercial ITV network.

More than 60 lawmakers signed a motion calling on the government to bring the matter before Britain’s Competition Commission, Member of Parliament John Grogan says.

BSkyB controls 40 percent of all British television revenue — almost twice that of the BBC, the newspaper said.

I read between the lines that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown — widely expected to be elected the next Labor Party leader, replacing Tony Blair as prime minister — faces a dilemma, being afraid of retaliation by Murdoch’s newspaper Sun in the September election, once he would support Labor lawmakers.....read more

It will probably surprise many people — I wish I could say it surprised me — to know that the Press Complaints Commission still thinks it has a future. If recent weeks have taught us anything about the PCC, you might think, it is that the so-called regulator has failed to uphold press standards and a new approach is needed. The prime minister thinks so, Labour thinks so, the public thinks so and the Leveson inquiry has been asked to devise that new approach. The PCC is doomed, and you would struggle, these days, to find a supporter who did not have a strong interest in the status quo.

But go to the PCC website and you will find something like defiance. We do a great job helping people with complaints, they say. A lot of the criticism we endure is unfair. Hacking was a matter for the law and not for us. Yes, there is a need for reform, even fundamental reform, but in the end you must come back to something like the PCC or democracy will be endangered.

This is misleading and smacks of self-delusion. The PCC’s failures did not begin with hacking; hacking is just the last and heaviest straw. The PCC, when it had its chance, gave the News of the World a clean bill of health on hacking although the same evidence led MPs on the media select committee to conclude that the paper was gravely at fault and senior executives were displaying ‘collective amnesia’. The PCC also criticised the Guardian, which broke the key hacking story in 2009. The MPs and the Guardian have been proved right and the PCC wrong.

Why was the PCC wrong? Because it is a complaints agency and doesn’t know what to do when a big problem comes along. In the McCann case it did nothing while for a year newspapers indulged in an orgy of libels — they have since admitted to publishing hundreds of false articles, possibly more than a thousand, grossly misleading millions and millions of readers. Like hacking, this was apparently not the PCC’s business.

Nor is the failure of accountability in the tabloid press the PCC’s problem. Again and again we see these large libel payouts, the latest to Chris Jefferies, the retired Bristol teacher so disgracefully treated in the tabloids. Has the PCC ever followed up such cases to see why lessons are not learned? Have they ever asked about internal systems and accountability in these papers? Have they asked about discipline? There is no sign of it.

Such matters are too big for the PCC. Its concern is the micro — individual complaints, and (largely) only those which are made by the people personally affected. This has nothing obvious to do with standards, though the argument was often made that by chasing up such complaints the PCC would effect a general raising of standards in the press. It has been nearly 20 years since the PCC began work and we are entitled to ask: has there been a general raising of standards? No.

The complaints work is worthwhile and something like it will be needed in the future. Few people dispute that. It does not follow that to meet our present needs all we have to do is improve the complaints agency. Though the PCC seems to be the very last to recognize this, we need radical change. We need a regulator.

As for the need to balance regulation with freedom of expression, that is a challenge the Leveson Inquiry will address and which it is perfectly capable of addressing successfully. It will have many options before it, and you can read some ideas here. To suggest that the only way to achieve a balance is to stick with a structure that has failed is nonsense. Far from being chained to the PCC we are about to discard it, and very few people who care about press freedom and press standards will be sorry to see it go.

A former jockey and racehorse trainer at the centre of a child custody scandal lied that her former boyfriend was a paedophile, a High Court judge said yesterday.Vicky Haigh made up the allegations and even coached her seven-year-old daughter to repeat the claims, he added.

Sir Nicholas Wall, the country’s most senior family judge, said that Miss Haigh should be named and shamed and her former partner, David Tune, freed from the false smear that he is a child abuser.

False claims: Victoria Haigh, pictured here in 2006, said her former boyfriend was a paedophile

He made the damning remarks as he jailed another woman, Elizabeth Watson, who acted as an ‘investigator’ on Miss Haigh’s behalf, sending ‘aggressive and intimidating’ e-mails and internet postings about social workers involved in the case. Watson was given a nine-month sentence for contempt of court. The ruling was the culmination of a long-running row involving Miss Haigh which started with her allegations about her boyfriend and social workers.

Initially the secrecy of the family courts meant the public were not allowed to know any of the facts of the affair.

Allegations: Racehorse trainer Vicky Haigh coached her young daughter to say her father had abused her as part of a child custody battle

But John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP who named Ryan Giggs in the commons as a footballer with a privacy injunction to hide an affair, named Miss Haigh using Parliamentary privilege. The MP said Haigh had been unfairly put under threat of imprisonment by Doncaster Council for speaking to a Westminster meeting about family law issues.It led to sympathetic portrayals of the then heavily pregnant Miss Haigh.But yesterday that changed when Sir Nicholas made his judgement public and ordered that Miss Haigh, 40, could now legally be named, as could Mr Tune, and that Doncaster council be identified as the employer of the social workers in the case.The judge ordered that the seven-year-old girl’s identity must remain secret and she can be known only as ‘X’.Sir Nicholas said: ‘Allegations of sexual abuse were first made by the mother and not by X. These were false and the mother knew them to be false. X was coached by the mother to make allegations of sexual abuse against the father.’

He added that two judges examined the case at previous High Court hearings and both found that Mr Tune was not a paedophile and had not sexually abused his daughter.

Twisted: Haigh hired a private investigator to help her spread malicious lies over the internet

Sir Nicholas said: ‘The child’s mother is wholly unable to accept the court’s verdict and, with the misguided assistance of Elizabeth Watson has unlawfully and in breach of court orders, put into the public domain via email and the internet a series of unwarranted and scandalous allegations about the father and others.

‘She has repeated the untruth that the father is a paedophile and – without a scintilla of evidence - has attacked the good faith of all the professionals who had had any contact with the case.‘These proceedings have had a serious effect on the life of the father and have threatened the stability of the child. Her mother’s actions are wholly contrary to her interests.’ The judge said that Watson had identified parties in the case in defiance of court orders and had criticised social workers and police. He said she had referred to ‘social disservices’ and ‘abductees’ who ‘snatched children’ and ‘tortured innocent parents’. Sir Nicholas said: ‘You have seriously breached an order and seriously compromised the well-being of a child. There is no question of misunderstood. You knew exactly what you were doing – writing the most aggressive, intimidating emails calling everyone in sight corrupt.’ He added: ‘She thought herself above the law. That will not be tolerated.’

Wireless Generation was to pocket $27 million of the state's $700 million in "Race to the Top" funds to develop software to track student test scores.

News Corp.'s British tabloid "News of the World" was shuttered last month amid a phone hacking and police bribery scandal.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is reviewing whether reporters from Murdoch's media empire hacked the phones of any 9/11 victims.

The controversy proved too much for the state to stomach.

"In light of the significant ongoing investigations and continuing revelations with respect to News Corp., we are returning the contract with Wireless Generation unapproved," DiNapoli's office wrote to the Education Department.

DiNapoli's office also cited an "incomplete record" about Wireless Generation's qualifications as a cause for concern.

A spokeswoman for the company declined comment Thursday, and said Wireless Generation had not received any notification from the state.

Steamed state education officials slammed DiNapoli, accusing him of caving to teachers' unions - whose members opposed handing over data to Wireless Generation.

"The controller has allowed political pressure to get in the way of vital technology that would help our students," Education Department spokesman Jonathan Burman said.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and those are the ones the ENGLISH GOVERMENT wish to focus on with the help of the British Media whom they control lock, stock and barrel.

NATO have massacred thousands of innocent people in Libya, BUT lets forget about them and concentrate on the death of Yvonne Fletcher. 'New light' has been shed on the 27 year old killing of Yvonne claims the Independent and how fortunate that after 27 LONG YEARS we now have a witness , painter and decorator David Robertson and a 'suspect' also NOW named as a junior diplomat Abdulmagid Salah Ameri .

This evidence is not NEW, if indeed it is evidence, one can never tell when you have a Goverment as corrupt as the British Empire. This information would have been known at the time of the killing, hushed up as it did not suit England to make too much fuss , after all she was just a young girl from a simple background no family with 'good contacts' to make a noise.

However, information is kept and stored for a rainy day. NATO's attack on Libya has been nothing less than cold blooded murder, they have broken every law in the book.

It is now raining in Libya , pouring in fact with the blood from innocent dead women and children, the elderly who did nothing to deserve this intervention...blood for oil !

Time to roll out Yvonne Fletcher (she is now very useful) and arrest her killer afterall...."It will be an important element in the UK's relations with the new government of Libya"

A few days ago WPC Fletcher's mother Queenie told reporters that she hoped her daughter's killer would be found now that Muammar Gaddafi has been toppled from power.

A senior Sunday Times investigative reporter remained a casual employee so that if the paper was caught out it could deny its Insight team was dealing in "black arts" and stolen property, an employment tribunal has heard.

David Connett, a former member of the Sunday Times Insight team who has taken the paper to the employment tribunal for unfair dismissal, said he was deliberately "kept off the books" by the paper in case any investigations turned sour.

Connett told the tribunal in Stratford yesterday that he was a senior member of staff but did not have a contract and was paid as a casual. He did not have a staff email, nor was his name on the Sunday Times staff directory, so that if anyone called for him his listing would not appear on the switchboard.

He said the agreement to be a casual employee was made with Dean Nelson, the then editor of Insight, when he joined the paper in July 2003 to work on the investigative team.

"If for instance it came out that we had purchased stolen goods or stolen documents, the purpose of this arrangement was for Dean to be able to say 'it wasn't the Sunday Times, it was a freelancer'," Connett added.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Shocking new revelation now unfolding in British and American media reports on one of the largest ever ongoing white collar organised crime tax fraud operations in modern economic history has revealed that 10 Downing Street Cabinet Office high level aides close to Prime Minister David Cameron are deeply embroiled in the Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust one billion dollars case. It has emerged in these latest revelations that extracts of the Carroll Trust Cabinet Office case dossiers are thought to have been leaked to investigative journalists following this major national security public interests case which stretches the globe.

Political commentators have remarked that the dossiers disclose a "shocking trail" of criminal subversive "cover-up" attempts "linked to co-ordinated" dangerous obstruction offences which are thought to be exasperating the primary victims who are the subject of close protection arrangements following horrific weapons attacks and ongoing threats to kill compounded by a complete refusal by the Metropolitan Police to provide assistance. Leaked sources have also revealed that whilst these UK Government "sponsored" organised crime offences have continued a staggering further seventy five million dollars of Carroll Foundation Trust world interests have fallen victim of multiple criminal seizure operations linked directly to the trust's multi-million dollar Eaton Square Belgravia and Westminster residences.

Sources have revealed that specimen exhibits of the primary fraudulent UK Companies House "registered" Carroll Holdings Corporation Ltd. (Co.No.2566593) regarded as a parent dummy structure is understood to form a vital component of the Carroll Trust case files which are held in custody at the FBI headquarters and Scotland Yard. Further financial media reports have revealed that the Howard Hughes estate which at the time of his death on April 5th 1976 included the Summa Corporation Hughes Aircraft Corporation Hughes Helicopters and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Maryland is connected with the Gerald Carroll Trust Global interests. It is understood that Carroll Aircraft Corporation Carroll Anglo-American Corporation and Maine Investments Gibraltar are the "named" victims in what is termed as the Hughes Carroll Affair.

It has emerged that Loeb & Loeb the major American law firm with offices in Los Angeles New York and Washington DC has been "named" with Slaughter & May as the Carroll Foundation Trust Global interests lawyers. The Carroll case files contain compelling forensic evidential material surrounding the incorporation of forged dummy HSBC Carroll Trust Corporations and falsified HSBC Carroll banking arrangements which effectively impulsed this massive one billion dollars fraud case.

The State of Delaware "registered" Carroll Trust Corporations were utilised within a fraudulent "multiple name switch" utilising double taxation treaties. It is understood that the Bahamas British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar tax havens are the primary platforms for the embezzled multi-million dollar offshore liquid funds currently believed to be under the administrative control of what is regarded as Britain's most dangerous crime syndicate which is now being targeted by the FBI and Scotland Yard's elite organised crime officers.

This US HM Crown National Security and Public Interests Case is held within a complete - LOCKDOWN - at the FBI Washington DC field office and the Metropolitan Police Scotland Yard Specialist Operations Directorate under the supervision of the assistant commissioner John Yates who is believed to have an intimate knowledge of this affair.

Sensational further criminal allegations in the Carroll Foundation Trust cross-border offshore tax evasion money laundering case has revealed that yet another of the trust's legal advisors Edwards Duthie solicitors of Ilford and Plaistow are understood to have been named in the new explosive case files obtained by Scotland Yard and the FBI Washington DC field office elite law enforcement officers charged with this case of international importance.

Sources have disclosed that partners of Edwards Duthie attended a range of meetings with the Kent Police officers who are now thought to be the subject of serious criminal allegations surrounding the theft of the priceless Carroll Institute US Anglo-Irish national treasures collections from high value crime scene locations including Red Self Storage Dartford Kent and Alban Shipping Luton Bedfordshire. Further sources have said that the stolen treasures scandal is directly linked to the co-ordinated break-ins burglaries and seizure offences that were targeted at the Carroll Foundation's multi-million dollar Eaton Square Belgravia penthouse and Westminster residences.

The UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP "in concert" with Sir Anthony Garner the former Conservative Party HQ director and other parties continue to conduct a regime of serious obstruction offences in the Carroll Foundation Trust Case

Shocking new allegations unfolding in the American media reports on Britain's biggest ongoing organised crime offshore tax evasion fraud scandal took another twist with further startling revelations that have disclosed that the Prime Minister Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP is personally deeply involved in the ongoing "obstruction and co-ordinated cover-up" attempts in the Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust Case.